[PATCH 0/4] mtd: add mtd repartition ioctl

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:08 +0300, Roman Tereshonkov wrote:
> Adding mtd master device after all partitions should provide
> minimum effect on the created partition enumeration.
> 
> The master mtd device can be repartitioned in runtime through
> the mtd ioctl MTDREPARTITION. The ioctl passed argument is
> the set of the new partitions defined by the structures:
> struct mtd_partitions and struct mtd_partition_user.
> 
> All at once partition configuration is used and caused by
> the all at once partition removing. Only unused partitions are deleted.
> If any of the partitions for given mtd device is used then user gets error.
> The care should be taken to close all applications which access
> the partitions.
> 
> Roman Tereshonkov (4):
>   mtd: add new ioctl structures to be used for repartitioning
>   mtd: add the possibility to modify partitions in runtime
>   mtd: add MTDREPARTITION ioctl
>   mtd: create the mtd master device for given set of partitions
> 
>  drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c          |  110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c          |   45 ++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/mtd/onenand/omap2.c    |    8 ++-
>  include/linux/mtd/partitions.h |    2 +
>  include/mtd/mtd-abi.h          |   15 ++++++
>  5 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

I've pushed this to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / master, looks good to me.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)